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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:09:31 -0800
From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: "Gentoo mailing list" <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Reconciling users and services
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I have some users on a system and some services.  How can I make sure
only certain users can log into certain services?  Do I need to
explicitly define which users can log into each service?  Are there
different types of users so that some can only log into certain
services?

For example, I know any user that has their shell set to /bin/nologin
can't log into a shell.  How can I check on users' shell settings?

- Grant